Anton, there are some SERIOUS multiplayer issues...

[Yossarian]

To Pup & Kryptonite

I've never had a game where no one played it during the first week. I understand there is a lot of SP content, but I don't believe people are not going to have an MP game until they have completed it all.

This game is DOA. 90% of owners will only play arcade anyway, most quit in disgust when they realised they needed to do ten times more damage to an enemy plane than in SP mode to have any chance of scoring a kill, and then most likely they would be cheated out of a score by a crash or bail out. Most of them tried a couple of MP games and never came back.

I've had 1 simulator match with 3 players, 1 realistic dogfight with 8 players, 5 of whom quit during the game after spining into the ground for the umpteenth time and a few arcade games with a half a dozen players. All in 5 days.

I've never come across a game with such a poor amount of players online in launch week. I'm going to trade in this against a copy of Beatles Rockband that is coming out Friday, I would recommend IL2 to anybody, but not for MP it was DOA.

[muggins]

Originally Posted by Yossarian

To Pup & Kryptonite

I've never had a game where no one played it during the first week. I understand there is a lot of SP content, but I don't believe people are not going to have an MP game until they have completed it all.

This game is DOA. 90% of owners will only play arcade anyway, most quit in disgust when they realised they needed to do ten times more damage to an enemy plane than in SP mode to have any chance of scoring a kill, and then most likely they would be cheated out of a score by a crash or bail out. Most of them tried a couple of MP games and never came back.

I've had 1 simulator match with 3 players, 1 realistic dogfight with 8 players, 5 of whom quit during the game after spining into the ground for the umpteenth time and a few arcade games with a half a dozen players. All in 5 days.

I've never come across a game with such a poor amount of players online in launch week. I'm going to trade in this against a copy of Beatles Rockband that is coming out Friday, I would recommend IL2 to anybody, but not for MP it was DOA.

I'm not sure if you're aware after the 3 dozen threads about it, but the game hasn't shipped to al ot of people yet. There was a huge issue with street dating on this game, so a lot of the people won't be able to pick it up til today. Add that to the game coming out at the start of Labor Day weekend and anyone can see why there may not have been many people on. Please think things through and read what others say

[Yossarian]

Originally Posted by muggins

I'm not sure if you're aware after the 3 dozen threads about it, but the game hasn't shipped to al ot of people yet. There was a huge issue with street dating on this game, so a lot of the people won't be able to pick it up til today. Add that to the game coming out at the start of Labor Day weekend and anyone can see why there may not have been many people on. Please think things through and read what others say

That was a stupid post, the game debuts in the UK top 10 and you're trying to tell me not a lot of people have the game yet. Think about it.

[muggins]

Originally Posted by Yossarian

That was a stupid post, the game debuts in the UK top 10 and you're trying to tell me not a lot of people have the game yet. Think about it.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9494

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9267

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9310

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9420

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9349

Just a few threads about how people can't get the game. Amazon.com, one of the biggest retailers in the world, has it releasing on the 15th. Please allow yourself 10 mins to read and realize that the world is bigger than your little island.

[nudger1964]

Originally Posted by muggins

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9494

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9267

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9310

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9420

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9349

Just a few threads about how people can't get the game. Amazon.com, one of the biggest retailers in the world, has it releasing on the 15th. Please allow yourself 10 mins to read and realize that the world is bigger than your little island.

even on this little island....a very large number of those that pre-ordered (i assume they will count towards its top 10 placing) have yet to recieve their copy because of postal disputes. from my own little straw pole of people i know....50% of those that pre ordered havnt got the game yet.

[trk29]

Originally Posted by muggins

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9494

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9267

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9310

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9420

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9349

Just a few threads about how people can't get the game. Amazon.com, one of the biggest retailers in the world, has it releasing on the 15th. Please allow yourself 10 mins to read and realize that the world is bigger than your little island.

Here's another one.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9494

[Yossarian]

Originally Posted by muggins

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9494

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9267

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9310

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9420

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=9349

Just a few threads about how people can't get the game. Amazon.com, one of the biggest retailers in the world, has it releasing on the 15th. Please allow yourself 10 mins to read and realize that the world is bigger than your little island.

Why would I care if the game is on sale in the US, I play UK afternoon/ evening time not in the middle of the night when the US is on line. It makes no difference to us if you can't get the game yet because DUH we live in different time zones and play at different times. The game is in the top 10 in the UK, I play UK time, I don't care what goes on the US because it does not effect me.

Lots of people must have bought in the UK to make the top ten, I play UK time and normally with mostly UK gamers.

@TRK29, erm Canada has the same time zones as the US, I'm in bed before they get online of an evening. 8pm US east coast is 2am here and 8pm US west coast is 5am here, I was never going to play with them anyway.

[muggins]

Yeah, clearly nobody except Brits are playing during the time you play.

[Phantom Works]

Yossarian it may have debut in the top ten but I'm guessing that quite a few of those sales were pre-orders that were dispatched last week and which have got lost in the postal system.

It is quiet on the multiplayer front but it's too soon to dismiss this. On Friday I couldn't get a Game on-line for love or money but I did notice an improvement on Monday. Give it another week and I'm sure it will pick up as more people recieve their orders as muggins said.

[Pup]

Originally Posted by Yossarian

That was a stupid post, the game debuts in the UK top 10 and you're trying to tell me not a lot of people have the game yet. Think about it.

I'm pretty sure my purchase goes towards getting it into the top 10, yet I still haven't got my copy, nor has anyone that I know of that ordered from the same site as I did, however I do think it is more of a case of people not playing MP so much while there is SP to play through.

I've been a big fan of the cod series (on pc), but I have always tended to play through the single player before I did much mp at all, which was usually the first week after buying. Add to that, there are multiplayer issues which are pissing people off, which Anton has already replied about in this thread to say they are looking into this as well as possible joystick fixes mentioned in another thread.

Up to you at the end of the day, but the game probably will have less of a chance to get a following online if people give up on it so early on